ok.. I am clicked on so many different combinations of buttons thinking that tutorial was out of date and I have to check a box or something, but so far I keep getting the same result from Inset....

Inset keeps making an hour glass looking thing with my rook tutorial when I scretch the top polys upward to see what’s going on. It’s not cutting the planes and I am not sure what’s going on.

I have a screen shot. It’s just not uploading :(
I have 3ds max 2009 x64 on my laptop. ATI 3200

Yay. finally uploaded.

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IIRC there’s a problem with the tutorial scene file - there’s a thread around here somewhere which explains the cause of the problem and the fix - if I could find it…

A quick(ish) fix. Delete the polys on the top, select the Border, Shift+Uniform Scale them inwards to create the “battlements”. Repeat once more until there is only a tiny hole left. Select those Vertices and weld them. Then continue with the tutorial.

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

I consider myself a smart guy, considering I am working on my physics degree (grad). and I completely didn’t think to do that.. I was stuck thinking inside the box at values of 27 since the tutorial gave 100 as a value.

So I give you major kudos :) the value was 4. It’s perfect now. Super thanks!

Yeah, my computer is on default basicly because I just started.

The tutorials should mention to use the arrow key dragging, so that way it will be more visible on what’s going wrong as apposed to just putting the values in and then POP, it’s way off.